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One man is dead and another is missing after a boating accident on the James River early Friday that sent 10 people into the water. The boaters -- six men and four women, all in their 20s -- were crammed into a 22-foot sailboat that left Deep Creek in Newport News on Thursday evening following a party on Menchville Road. Nine of the 10 boaters were interns or graduate students through a program at NASA Langley Research Center, and the nearby National Institute of Aerospace. "They were apparently at a party and decided to take a midnight cruise in one of their boats," said John Bull, a spokesman with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission. "I have no idea where they were...

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